[LUNI] Strange wireless AP issue

[Jeff Jirsa]

Because of other WAPs close to me, I changed my channel to 11 and the
PC on my first floor can now see the WAP with decent strength.

-----Original Message-----
From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
Janine Starykowicz
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:45 AM
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: [LUNI] Strange wireless AP issue


How strong is the signal?  Some of my neighbors apparently have wireless

now, last week the laptop was seeing those networks instead of our own.

Once I moved closer to the modem it connected fine and held once I moved

back.

Also make sure the 2Wire Monitor utility is turned off on the wireless 
machines.  Haven't seen an issue at home, but it can conflict with other

networks when you are on the road.

Janine

Michael Labowicz wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a 2WIRE HomePortal 1800HG wireless router/dsl access point on 
> my home
> network.  Until recently it was doing a great job, but its behaving
oddly
> over the past few weeks.  The issue I'm seeing is that computers that
are
> connecting over wifi are having their connections go inactive after
being
> connected for a while.  This is causing problems when I want to SSH 
> into my
> freevo PVR (which is connected wirelessly) or when my wife tries to 
> user her
> winxp laptop to connect to the internet (she gets occasional 
> time-outs).  I
> admit that my description of the problem is a bit obscure, but I'm at 
> a loss
> to what it exactly is... Is there a setting on the router or on each 
> of the
> computers where I can prevent this inactivity?
>
> It's happening on my windows and linux boxes so I don't think its a 
> problem
> on the client side, it must be on the AP.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
>

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